I found the slow steady shots mesmerising, often fixed in one spot so we are observers of a scene playing it out. There is no doubt that this is capital-A Art and so your patience with this film’s meditative pacing may be shorter than mine. He then disappears with no one remembering he ever existed and things only get stranger from there.
She undergoes a slow realisation that nobody else appears to hear it and so goes to a sound recordist, Hernan, to try and recreate it. It begins with our lead Jessica being woken up by a loud noise that has also set off car alarms in a nearby area. Marketed as director Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s English language debut, even though the dominant language is Spanish, and his most accessible film to date, Memoria is nonetheless as enigmatic and metaphysical as you would expect from the mind of Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives. Here in the UK, the distribution has been more straightforward with Sovereign releasing the film onto digital platforms before this special collector’s edition Blu-ray. At the time of writing, this process is still more or less in place, but evidently, the pandemic mindset hasn’t been shaken enough to pull off such distribution tactics. The American distribution by Neon of Memoria attempted to create a never-ending release whereby it would play at a single cinema for one night only and then move on to another one.
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